Charmed and Five Children and It

[ffutures]

Just watching Charmed on TV (Channel 5, not sure which series), wondered if anyone knows if the episode that Charisma Carpenter appears in will be on UK terrestrial TV in the near future.

During the break there was an advert for a film of Nesbit's Five Children and It, which looks to have been jazzed up a little to appeal to the usual special effects fans; the Psammead looks more like a turtle, the flying sequence has an airship, and so forth. Doubt I'll bother to see it in the cinema, but might be fun when it eventually comes on TV.

If anyone wants to read the original, incidentally, it's on my web site with the Forgotten Futures RPG:

http://www.forgottenfutures.com/game/ff8/index.htm

Oddly enough I've been writing something for the next release of the RPG which harks back to FF8, so I've been working with Nesbit-related material all afternoon. Weird coincidence but true.

Comments

[cdybedahl.livejournal.com]

Don't know about air times, but Charisma is in episode 7:03 "Cheaper by the Coven" and 7:05 "Styx Feet Under".

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Thanks, that helps a lot. The TV paper didn't show which season is being shown, but the episode tonight was Soul Survivor, which epiguides shows as 6.7 (I'm not a regular follower of the show which is why I was a little confused), so there's still a fair way to go. Probably won't be shown this year.

[booster17.livejournal.com]

Btw, been meaning to ask this ever since I did a search for Three Men In A Boat and did a double-take on recognising you, but what other classics do you have online, or are planning to add?

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Not many "classics" as such, but quite a few old novels that are mostly forgotten, by authors such as George Griffith. Also some Nesbit, the complete Professor Challenger stories by Doyle, the complete Carnaki the Ghost Finder by Hodgson, and so forth. Mostly on forgottenfutures.com, the game site, as part of the game support material; I really ought to add a comprehensive index of stories to the site.

Three Men in a Boat was an oddity because it was already on line at a couple of sites - but I found a nice illustrated copy, and for some reason the illustrations had never been put on line. It just seemed like a good idea to put it up, and it was fun to read it again when I was proof-reading it.